Or 16175 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

A treatise on geomancy, in 12 chapters (bāb), each comprising numerous sections (faṣls). As the title given in the preface show, this work is putatively derived from the teachings of the Prophets Daniel and Idrīs (here perhaps identified with Hermes Trismegistos). The present copy is incomplete: it contains several of the faṣls comprising the first bāb.

Undated: ca. 12th/18th century.

Naskhī. 18 lines. Tables with geomantic symbols. 172 x 116 mm.; text area 120 x 62 mm.

A treatise on simple and compound remedies. By Muḥammad ‘Alī Ṭabāṭabā’ī Iṣfahānī (ca. 11th/17th century). Munzavī, in FNKhF I p. 543, records only one other copy (Tehran University, Faculty of Medicine MS. 114/1). The present manuscript must be incomplete at the end, but contains marginalia that include corrections as well as annotations, and so was presumably checked against another.

Undated: ca. 12th/18th century.

Clear naskhī. 15 lines. Red headings. 172 x 116 mm.; text area 128 x 64 mm.

A medical tract in Arabic, on the maintenance of good health through correct food, drink and medicines. This work is implausibly attributed to ‘Alī ibn Mūsà al-Riżā, Ninth Imam of the Shī‘a. See Brockelmann, GAL S I, pp. 318-9. Several Persian translations exist in manuscript: see Munzavī, FNKhF I, pp. 498-501.

Undated: ca. 12th/18th century. Clear naskhī. 15 lines. Text area 115 x 60 mm.